TY  - BOOK
AU  - Volckart,Oliver
TI  - The silver empire: how Germany created its first common currency 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780191997495
AV  - HG996 .V6 2024
U1  - 332.494309031 23
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Money
KW  - Holy Roman Empire
KW  - Monetary policy
KW  - Finance and Accounting
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Economics
KW  - thema
KW  - Germany
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 16th century
N1  - Also issued in print: 2024; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 'The Silver Empire' is a comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century. The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common a currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope with - and even to benefit from - the parallel circulation of many different types of coin, it nevertheless harmed both the common people and the political authorities. The authorities in particular suffered from neighbours who used their comparatively good money as raw material to mint poor imitations. Debasing their own coinage provided an, at best, short-term solution. Volckart examines the conditions that shaped the monetary outlook of the member states of the Empire, paying particular attention to the uneven access to silver and gold
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198894483.001.0001
ER  -